- To save succeeding generations from the scourge
of intra-galactic war which has brought untold horror and suffering
to our planetary social systems, and
- To reaffirm faith in the fundamental intelligent
life-form rights, in the dignity and worth of intelligent life-form
persons, to the equal rights of male and female and of planetary social
systems large and small, and
- To establish conditions under which justice and mutual
respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources
of interplanetary law can be maintained, and
- To promote social progress and better standards of
life in larger freedom,
- To practice benevolent tolerance and live in peace
with one another as good neighbors, and
- To unite our strength to maintain
intra-galactic peace and security, and
- To ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution
of methods that armed force shall not be used except in the common defense,
and
- To employ intra-galactic machinery for the promotion
of the economic and social advancement of all intelligent life-forms,
Have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these
aims.
Accordingly, the respective social systems, through representatives
assembled on the planet Babel, who have exhibited their full powers to
be in good and due form, have agreed to these Articles of Federation of
the United Federation of Planets, and do hereby establish an interplanetary
organization to be known as the United Federation of Planets.
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